He The Devil Wears Prada 2 He set his satirical target not only on Anna Wintour, but also on a different kind of power couple, and the timing couldn’t be better.
According Varietywho spoke to five people who saw the film after its world premiere at Lincoln Center and a subsequent screening in London, Emily Blunt’s returning character, Emily, has been reimagined as a figure who bears a striking resemblance to Lauren Sánchez Bezos.
Dressed in designer clothes and working at Christian Dior, the character is now the glamorous partner of a billionaire tech tycoon played by Justin Theroux, described by sources as a mix of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
Theroux’s character is shown in flashbacks wearing prosthetics to appear heavier before a dramatic physical transformation following extreme wealth, a detail that closely mirrors the real-life narrative of Bezos’s well-documented reinvention.
Lucy Liu plays the mogul’s first wife, a philanthropist who spends her divorce settlement doing good in the world, which sources say is a nod to MacKenzie Scott, Bezos’s first wife.
A subplot reportedly follows Blunt’s Emily trying to convince her billionaire partner to acquire Clue, the fictional film substitute for Fashion, in a direct reference to long-standing speculation that the Bezos couple have been considering acquiring Condé Nast, which publishes Fashion, The New Yorker, GQ and vanity fair.
Sánchez Bezos has denied such interest and told the New York Times “Desire!” when asked about it.
A spokesperson for Blunt said Variety It was “absolutely false” that his character was based on Sánchez Bezos.
The moment is tremendously uncomfortable.
The Bezos are co-chairs of this year’s Met Gala on May 4, the Monday after the film’s premiere, along with Wintour, Beyoncé and Nicole Kidman, and are also financial sponsors of the event.
The Met Gala is said to be leaning heavily toward the film as a promotional tie-in, meaning Blunt could find herself in the same room as the woman she is said to parody.
The situation is even more complicated for Blunt’s husband, John Krasinski, star of the Amazon series. Jack Ryan franchise, Amazon, of course, remains under CEO Bezos.
